7 month old pullet with curled under toe-Help!

[erinangele]

Hi, i have 6 chickens and noticed a few days ago that ones toe is slightly curled under causing her to limp a little. It is not an obvious limp, but if you are paying attention you can see it. She seems ok other wise, laying, eating, drinking, normal poops etc. The others are all fine. I am feeding them an organic layer pellet, i think its called Natural Organic.

Do you think she could have broken it some how? They have 1/4 inch wire on the bottom of the coop, maybe it got caught? I'm not sure if it's something i need to treat, or if it will work itself out. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

 

[chicmom]

Can you splint her toe with a popsicle stick (or something similar) and use vet wrap tape to hold it? The vet wrap is remarkable.

 

[CMV]

If it is curled under you really should try to straighten it into a neutral position. If it won't easily move into the neutral position then it is going to need to be trained to do so. A chicken walking on a crooked toe is much more likely to battle bumblefoot repeatedly because of abnormal use and "wear and tear" where there isn't supposed to be any.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry

That's a site to a chicken podiatry page which will help you to immobilize the foot properly.

Good luck.